Warm your inner body up for cold hands and feet!

Key measure is to increase the body temperature!

It
is natural that your hands and feet getting cold due to freezing winter
weather. However, if you still have cold hands and feet even in the room
temperature, you should doubt Hypersensitivity in the extremities. This symptom
tends to get worse in cold weather and could lead up to severe pain.

Cold
hands and feet are symptom of thermal discomfort that occurs despite the
warm weather or a situation where you should be warm theoretically. Such
symptom may affect other issues as listed, numbness or tingling hands and
feet, indigestion, menstrual irregularity etc.

Followings
are 5 categories to divide patients suffering from cold hands and
feet according to their major cause.

1. Patient with chronically weak digestive system suffering
from cold hands and feet:

In
Korean medicine, there is a saying "Bijusamal" which means digestion
runs your fingers and toes. Higher numbers of a person who eat well
and digests well, tend to have warm hands and feet; even tend to feel cold a
little less after eating. Therefore, if you're digestive system is failing and
is unable to let your "Qi"(energy) extend to the limbs, strengthening
your digestive system will help warm up your hands and feet.

2. Suffering from such symptoms due to weak uterus:

There
are patients visiting hospital with menstrual pain, menstrual irregularity, and
infertility etc and they tend to have cold hands, feet and lower stomach. Say
digestive system is an oven, and the uterus is fire below. If the fire is not
strong enough, the oven would not heat up to be able to cook (indigestion),
and stay cold just like your body. If you focus on keeping your uterus warm,
you can tackle the coldness of hands too.

3. Weakness of energy and blood circulation:

Unlike
these two cases just mentioned, if you digest fine and have no
problem with uterus; but tired from overworking. The energy and blood within
your body produces nutrients to where it is most needed. This therefore lets
your limbs cold. If you fall in this category, it is best for you to take some
rest to recover the normal balance of blood and energy circulation.4. Warm head, cold feet typed body:

When
a person has too much stress, the heat tends remain on the upper
body area; your head. Meaning more than average amount of blood stays
uncirculated, eventually making hands cold. In order to warm the hands up,
treatments to cool the head down will help the body run blood throughout
equally.

5. Lacking "Yang":

As
we age, we lack yang which can be explained as heat in our bodies. When you
reach this stage, male tends to suffer from diarrhea, hypogonadism, and cold
hands or feet. Treatments to help your body recover from lacking yang can
be the solution.

Furthermore, even as a treatment for hypersensitivity,
making your whole body warm is important rather than just focusing on heating
up your hands and feet. This can be easily done in your daily life. It can be
as simple as drinking hot a tea, or lower-body bathing. As to drinking hot tea,
ginger tea is recommended for those with thermal discomfort and
difficulty with indigestion. Korean angelica root tea is helpful for women,
such as coldness of your body, menstrual irregularity. Hands and feet are
deeply connected to internal organs, which also mean warm hands and feet makes
energy and blood circulation lively.

Not
to mention, exercising is very important. Walking or stretching regularly can
bring up your body temperature by promoting blood circulation.

When the coldness of your extremities, you should see a
professional and get treated. In Korean medicine, there are treatments using
acupuncture, moxibustions and herbal medicine according to cure the
root cause, by changing the constitution. Moxibustion, Herbal wrapping, and
Phyto steam treatment, which helps with blood circulation in the
area such as uterus, digestive system is used to better the hands and feet not
warming up.